UK Telegraph
According to first reports, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device Friday, Feb. 1, at a side entrance to the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey, killing two security guards and causing other casualties. Ambulances and fire engines have reached the site of the massive explosion which sent smoke and debris flying into the street. Turkish sources quote witnesses as seeing the bomber approach the embassy building and enter a gate in the fortified compound. They were not clear whether he entered the building before detonating his explosives.
The embassy staff took cover in a fortified part of the embassy after the blast. Local TV showed damage to a wall of the compound and what appeared to be a bullet-proof window in the embassy building smashed.
